Lillipur Tiziana Terenzi 2013

Lillipur has a Shire character. It's somehow all similar to what you know, but yet completely different. L is a scent for elves, fairies, and hobbits, and it smells of another age, an age in which people have finally understood that when the planet has given all its resources, money can't be eaten. The flow doesn't really engage with the fragrance pyramid, and that's great. I can hardly pinpoint anything specific from the scent and slap a label on it. Only the cinnamon I perceive, and that right at the beginning.

L presents itself in its completely independent way, incognito to my nose.
Yet L is so fascinatingly dense and homogeneous. The color I associate with L is strangely purple. Sounds odd? But it smells (to me) like that :) It’s also the case that it smells different on my mom than on me; on women, it becomes softer, while on me it remains spicier, but still soft and spicy.

L is enchanted. It reminds me a bit of a misty mountain range. The misty mountains represent a natural boundary to the western world. Perhaps the smoky note of L has led me to this, or maybe I subconsciously perceived the incense more strongly. But still, L doesn’t specifically wave a note of incense; it’s more a note for all, and all notes for one.

The entire scent is a tightly constructed unit. This comes across even more fascinatingly since every unit requires a multitude, here: a mutually penetrating multitude. The quality of the craftsmanship approaches that of Sycomore. L even reminds me a bit of Sycomore, but in my opinion, L is softer-spicy, while Sycomore is greener. They don’t smell the same at all, yet there are similarities. Only Sycomore is still such a spicy-woody-earthy chameleon. Both also have a gently robust foundation. Perhaps it’s the combination of pepper, tobacco, and violet.

I soon perceive the scent of pine needles, which form a soap bubble around the flow and transport it into a magical world, a completely independent world. Perhaps into that of a fairy tale forest. The top note is spicy and a bit green, I even find. In the diagram, L has not a single percentage point in green. But a bit of winter forest due to the pine needles gives L a very special note. In the further development of the scent, green no longer plays a role, but at the beginning, the flow's nose wouldn’t let go of this impression, (stubborn, silly thing ;). I think there’s a bit of lavender still present, refining the soft robust opening.

L blooms softly and a bit sweetly, albeit restrained sweet-spicy. I want to sniff out a bit of unsweetened Christmas cookies (I once baked vegan Christmas cookies and I’m reminded of them a little now :) and luckily, L smells better than my cookies tasted back then :) It’s not a sweetness as one has known it before. It’s perhaps the shadow of a sweet note, just a bit of cookie without sugar. More agave syrup than sugar. The sweetness is woven into the spice, and it doesn’t simply smell sweet from the other end of the fragrance. L always stays in front of you, it is bundled in the here and now, composed as if through a magnifying glass.

Crystallized wood, sparkling wood without self-importance enters the fragrance development. The wood has a very smooth surface; we have come out of the forest, no rough, resinous bark, no Sycomore. It’s more like morning dew, warm sparkling with gently flashing spices. A bit of firewood. We find ourselves by a stream in a deep valley, still protected by the misty mountains. In the end, the scent has disappeared and returned to the Shire.

Lillipur is the first scent, (at least I think so :) where I have given 4 times 100%.